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Changing the U.S. sugar import system from quotas to a tariff-based regimen would allow the United S

Jon Baker helped finance a major Hollywood movie and hosted Princess Di, but he admits there isn't m

New Jersey's second-largest auto insurer has announced plans to form a special company to handle New

CITICORP CONSIDERS SALE OF SECURITIES INSURERCiticorp said Monday it was considering the sal

On the eve of the futures industry's largest conference, Senate Agriculture Committee staff members

A minimum rate for value-added taxes is critical to the European Community's efforts to attain a bar

Crewing, both in terms of training and numbers of men available, is one of the major problems facing

The futures industry will lose its most influential leader and one of its most colorful characters w

Japan offers excellent export and investment opportunities for U.S. companies, even as that country

LASERSCOPE SIGNS EUROPEAN DISTRIBUTORSAN JOSE, Calif. - Laserscope, a manufacturer of surgic

SOUTH KOREA TO IMPORT URANIUM FROM SOVIETSSEOUL, South Korea - South Korea has decided to im

European Community foreign ministers authorized the European Commission Tuesday to conclude an exten

A barge carrying 4.2 million gallons of No. 2 home heating oil blew up in a thunderous explosion in

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New Penn Motor Express Inc. defied higher fuel costs and continued ratepressure to post an i

It didn't take long for the battle to surface. An executive from a major paper shipper decla

The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union was dealt a sharp blow early this week whe

With little more than a year before beef import quotas here are eliminated, Japanese livestock produ

Beijing city authorities expect the capital's jobless rate to grow by 0.5 percentage point to 1 perc

INDUSTRY ORDERS FALL 5.5 PERCENT IN WEST GERMANYFRANKFURT, West Germany - Demand for West Ge

Every time Florida shivers, Brazil tightens its grip on the U.S. orange juice market. The So

New rules on benzene pollution give a glimpse of the way that the new clean air act will affect manu

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You think car insurance premiums are prohibitive? Pity the filmmaker whom insurers deem too old to m

The Chinese government appears to be tightening up further on exports of silk products, which last y

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The European Commission said Tuesday that it had nipped in the bud an alleged attempt by 26 European

Insurers and businesses are applauding many of the Pepper Commission's health insurance reform propo

Venezuela will hold its third debt-equity swap auction today, giving creditors the chance to convert

FACTORY ORDERS DOWN 5.4 PERCENT DURING JANUARYFactory orders fell 5.4 percent in January, th

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is creating an advisory group to assist the emerging cap

Time Warner Inc. and a Soviet enterprise have forged a joint venture to build multiscreen theaters i

Three major business trends will develop in the next five years that will give a competitive edge to

One big difference between Waikiki Beach today and 30 years ago is the huge influx of young single w

As inflation fears rise in the United States, West Germany and Japan, some economists worry that thi

Mar. 6, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

US EX-IM BANK SEEKS BOOST IN INDIA EXPOSURENEW DELHI, India - The U.S. Export-Import Bank ha

The push for German unification won't slow theEuropeanCommunity's program for a single market after

Bustling Sao Paulo, which likes to call itself "the city that never stops," could grind to a halt wi